Endangered Languages Project

CLASSIFICATION		Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, South Halmahera-West New Guinea
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3; Glottolog
LANGUAGE CODE		bhc; biga1238
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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The speaker community may soon switch to Papuan Malay because children typically only use Biga to speak with parents or grandparents.

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

PLACES: Spoken in a single village, Biga, on Misool Island in the Raja Ampat region of West Papua, Indonesia

				World Oral Literature Project					http://www.oralliterature.org		"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.		300	100-999		Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
ISSN: 1740-6234	Language Snapshots	July	2020	Four undocumented languages of Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia	Peter K. Austin	ELPublishing	Language Documentation and Description	17	http://www.elpublishing.org/docs/1/17/ldd17_02.pdf	Laura Arnold	Arnold, Laura. 2020. Four undocumented languages of Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia. In Peter K. Austin (ed.) Language Documentation and Description 17, 25-43. London: EL Publishing. http://www.elpublishing.org/PID/180	334	~300	100-999	Matbat, Misool dialect of Ma'ya, Papuan Malay	Threatened (100 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	10	The speaker community may soon switch to Papuan Malay because children typically only use Biga to speak with parents or grandparents.	12	12		-2.017855,139.269037
				Glottolog					http://www.glottolog.org/glottolog/		"Glottolog." Online: http://www.glottolog.org/glottolog/.										Spoken in a single village, Biga, on Misool Island in the Raja Ampat region of West Papua, Indonesia	-2.00,130.27

Biga